Title :
Assessment of the Performance and Sensitivity to Different Head Model Data of a New Coil Design for Field Localization during TMS
Author :
Kim, Dong-Hun ; Won, Chulho ; Georghiou, G.E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kyungpook Nat. Univ., Daegu
Abstract :
In this paper, the field distribution induced inside the brain during transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is thoroughly investigated in terms of two different head models as well as different conductivities of brain components. A new stimulator, adopting a conductive shield plate between a figure-of-eight (FOE) coil and the head, is simulated in the presence of each realistic head model and shows better field localization than the conventional FOE coil
Keywords :
brain models; coils; magnetic fields; conductive shield plate; field distribution; field localization; figure-of-eight coil design; head model data; transcranial magnetic stimulation; Brain modeling; Coils; Conductivity; Magnetic heads; Magnetic stimulation; Predictive models; Shape; Skin; Skull; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetic Field Computation, 2006 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Miami, FL
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0320-0
DOI :
10.1109/CEFC-06.2006.1632924
